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Black Jaguar or Tiger

S.E. Bourne

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Dream October 13 2024

I was is a deserted neighborhood recently depopulated.

My sister traveling with me.

It was a nice neighborhood. A few houses still with people there either new or old residents.

We picked a home and moved our bags in.

My sister went to sleep in one of the bedrooms.

I began to look around each room. Opened a few windows for fresh air.

Straightening out rooms that were nicely furnished and clean but in slight disarray.

Looking out a screen window towards a back yard a massive black cat wandered into yard and looked directly at me. Walking quietly right to the window I was standing in and came closer to stare me face to face.

Quiet and slow moving. It’s massive face calm its eyes never leaving my gaze.

Huge and black and shiny. It seemed more of a black tiger.

I gave a hiss and clapped my hands as we stared at each other and it turned and casually leaped into the trees on edge of the opened back yard.

I went to close all the windows in that room as quick as I could and checked the room where my sister was sleeping.

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S.E. Bourne

“If this is all I get, I will take it.” *S.E. Bourne